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Baldur’s Gate 1 Recap: After Gorion’s murder, my focus was to find his killers, avenge his death, and figure out their motive. Taking Imoen along with me, I immediately went to find Khalid and Jaheira, thinking they would have information (they didn’t). Regardless, I allowed them to join me...

Hello, I generally don't stick to a character longer than three or four months at a time, so even though I was in the latter half of TOB, it was time for me to switch from my Berserker and roll a new character. I know Fighter/Mage combos are a little overdone, but honestly I can't remember the...

This is a fine line with metagaming that I walk. I really try to not pre-buff/pre-position unless it's obvious an enemy lies ahead. And if it's not obvious, I always make sure to have my thief get eyes on it first to get myself some justification for pre-positioning. You'll notice in the...

Yeah I never use the Party AI. In fact I'm so opposed to it that when I forget to turn it off at the beginning of SOA--and Imoen casts a spell on herself before I can pause--I just start the game again. Aha

It's so much...and I'm slowly getting better at reading the text scroll screen for what magic users are doing in order to respond accordingly. One thing that really doesn't get spoken about too much but stays consistently crucial from Candlekeep to TOB....is character positioning and tactics...

The spell description says Save vs. Spell (which seems...askew), but I'm assuming that's not incorrect. I don't know? Yeah my Save vs. Death is -1 so I shouldn't be failing THAT save unless Malisoned or something.

I think my Save vs. Spell during these fights was 2, and Finger of Death has a -2 penalty...so about 15% chance of failing? It is weird that it happened twice in WK within a small amount of time..but maybe the real anomaly is that is hasn't happened MORE frequently during this entire BG2...

[Day 67 Continued] 1AM Continued. I had transformed Sarevok into my utility thief ever since granting him his life back when I created my Pocket Plane…but at some point leading up to these Seal battles, he finally mastered those skills and was able to combine them with his past fighter prowess...

[Day 67] [My notes got disappeared due to a sync error or something with my note-taking app, so I’m jumping in time about a day and half, but going to give the recap of what happened…] 1AM. The previous evening, we conquered the Githyanki, then slew Saladrex the Dragon and the Demilich. Found...

I should say too (it wouldn't be apparent for any reason) that I have indeed tried to minimize reloads a lot more than I have in previous playthroughs. I didn't really mention it...but a playthrough where I didn't have to reload for the Shadow Dragon, Firkraag, Irenicus, Spellhold, whatever...

@Urdnot_Wrex I'm really in kind of a transitional state of play these days, ever since I started "logging" reloads--my thought is that by measuring and reporting them, I'll naturally/subconsciously try HARDER to minimize them, since I'll have to stare at a record of my failures. And it has been...

[Day 65] 12AM. I fought into the late night again. Frustrated with the maze, I eventually started to use the madman's scribbled directions...and finally encountered Aesgareth, the Cambion. He told me he had the third gem that I was looking for--he tried to get me to play some type of game with...

[Day 64] 3AM. Late night, after killing the rest of the filth in the second level, we were completely spent on both memorized spells, healing magic, and special abilities. We had been fighting all these Watcher's Keep beasts on the fumes of the adrenaline of killing Yaga-Shura--but we hadn't...

[Day 63 Continued] 6PM. I fought and killed my way past the monsters on the first level. I had little patience as I stormed my way through, and eventually pieced together the steps of the ritual that will grant me access to the lower levels... 11PM. Continuing my rampage, I started clearing...

[Day 62] 1AM. I returned and fought my way through the fire-powered monsters of the temple and conquered the upper level. Eventually recovered the hearts of both Yaga-Shura and Nyalee... I have no way of destroying this heart myself, it seems. Nyalee said she knew the spells to de-power it...

[Day 61] 5AM. We marched eight hours to the east to a haunted temple of Bhaal that Melissan told us about. Some key to rendering Yaga-Shura killable might be found here. Well, I met the insufferable witch Nyalee--either fear from me or desire for her own revenge got her to cough up the...

[Day 60] 12AM. I found and killed Gromnir. In another world, maybe I would have tried to reason with him. Instead, my anger at being trapped in this city is focused on him; and he attacks me before I can say a word, anyway. I know that his death will open up new pathways for me here... I...

Throne of Bhaal Chapter 8 [Day 59] 7AM. The Elves love me for what I did, and give me a a very powerful Amulet of Seldarine...but beyond that, I think I should be compensated more for what I did for them. Unfortunately I'm whisked out of that damn city as soon as I've healed...but I'll keep...

[Day 58 Continued] 4PM. I eventually found and slew Irenicus. His Absolute Immunity and Spell Trap were hard to overcome, but using magical summonses and a series of Dragon's Breath from Edwin, he was eventually killed. Apparently my essence is still tied to my soul, which Irenicus...

[Day 52 Continued] 9PM. As I entered Ust Natha, we were stopped by Degardan, an enemy of Edwin. He must have stalked us underground. It seems Edwin's order of Red Wizards is after him for extended leave from his duties! Ha, yes--he works for Ethal Jo now of course. We killed the Thayan...